Yoram Barzel

A Theory of the State

Herausgeber: Calvert, Randall; Eggertsson, Thrainn

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book models the emergence of the state, and the forces that shape it. State creation is bound to protection needs. A specialized protector-ruler is efficient, but is also self-seeking. Individuals will install a ruler only after they create a mechanism to control him. Among the offshoots of the organized protection are legal system and decision-making procedures that include voting. The intitial 'state of nature' may gradually evolve into a rule-of-law state. The state endows individuals with rights by delineating what it will protect. Enforcement, however, is never perfect. People use third parties such as firms to enforce agreements. As commodities become standardized, scale economies increase. In order to exploit the economies of within-state enforcement, the state will expand the contact enforcement territory by treaty or by conquest. The force may explain the creation of rule-of-law empires.

Table of contents:
1. Introduction; Part I. The Emergence of Protection and Third-Party Enforcement: 2. The state and the enforcement of agreements; 3. Third-party enforcement and the state; 4. The choice among enforcement forms; 5. Anonymous exchange, mixed enforcement and vertical integration; 6. Jurisdictional issues; 7. Collective action and collective decisions; 8. Tying the protector's hand: the agreement between subjects and protector; Part II. The Emergence of Legal Institutions: 9. Legal rights; 10. The state enhancement of market trade; 11. The size and scope of the state; Part III. The Character of the State: 12. Voluntary merger and local autonomy; 13. The distinction between 'legitimate' and 'criminal' states; 14. Power, violent conflicts and political evolution; 15. The time path of change under dictatorships and under rule of law regimes; 16. Epilogue.

This book models the emergence of the state, and the forces that shape it. State creation is bound to protection needs. A specialized protector-ruler is efficient, but is also self-seeking. Individuals will install a ruler only after they create a mechanism to comtrol him.

This book models the emergence of the state, and the forces that shape it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9780521000642
• ISBN-10: 0521000645
• Artikelnr.: 21894499

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
Part I. The Emergence of Protection and Third-Party Enforcement: 2. The state and the enforcement of agreements
3. Third-party enforcement and the state
4. The choice among enforcement forms
5. Anonymous exchange, mixed enforcement and vertical integration
6. Jurisdictional issues
7. Collective action and collective decisions
8. Tying the protector's hand: the agreement between subjects and protector
Part II. The Emergence of Legal Institutions: 9. Legal rights
10. The state's enhancement of market trade
11. The size and scope of the state
Part III. The Character of the State: 12. Merger and local autonomy
13. The distinction between 'legitimate' and 'criminal' states
14. Power, violent conflict and political evolution
15. The time path of change under dictatorships and under rule-of-law regimes
16. Recapitulation and an epilogue
References
Index.